Auden Tate is Much Better Than Most People Think

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(01-23-2020, 01:46 AM)BengalChris Wrote: Ross's unavailability is a bigger minus than you are accounting for. Ross has missed 50% of the games since he was drafted. Your #2 WR cannot miss half the games over 3 years. Hypothetical yards count for nothing. They are like those Taylor moral victories as the losses kept mounting. Ross hasn't even accumulated a 1000 yards over 3 seasons. Maybe someday he'll have a 1000 yard season, but meanwhile he's been an underperforming, overdrafted, oft-injured head case with hand deficiencies.

I'll take the WR with the better hands and higher availability every day of the week and twice on Sundays.

 

So by that logic, if the Bengals reup AJ Tate should start over him because AJ has missed half the games over the last 3 seasons?

Since Tate entered the league, Ross has actually dressed for more games.  A lot of the games Tate did dress for, he only played a handful of.snaps.  Hard to get hurt standing on the sidelines.

You play the players that produce the most when they're healthy.  When both guys are healthy, Ross is more productive.  

That's also not even taking into account scheme.  Ross can effectively run a full route tree. As discussed earlier, Tate isn't fast enough to be effective deep and doesn't have the short area quickness to be effective on a lot of short routes, making him only really effective on intermediate stuff. You're limiting what you can do with your play calling by having him in the game.

Not only that,but you're presumably drafting Joe Burrow, statistically the best deep ball passer in college last year, and you're going to insert one of slowest WR's in the league over the fastest?

The reality is, both guys have injury issues and warts with their play on the field.  Hopefully, better talent comes in next year and pushes them down the depth chart.